Markandeyapurana 52.11

52.11

śanaiścarastathā śukro lohitāṅgo manojavaḥ /
skandaḥ sargo 'tha santāno budhaścānukramāt sutaḥ //

At the beginning of the kalpa, while the Lord was meditating about a son who should be his equal, there appeared in his lap a yout blue and red in colour; and running about he cried with a sweet voice, O brāhman. “Why criest thou?” answered Brahmā to him as he cried. “Give me a name,” then replied he to the lord of the world. “Thou art named ‘Rudra,’[1] O divine one; cry not, assume some fortitude,” thus was he addressed. Then he cried seven times more, and the Lord gave him seven other names, and stations for these eight personalities, and wives and sons, O brāhman. The Lord, the forefather, called him Bhava, Sarva, and Īśāna, and Pasupati, Bhīma, Ugra, and Mahādeva. He gave these names, and assigned stations for these—the sun, water, the earth, fire, the wind, and the ether, an initiated brāhman, and the moon. These were the wives[2] in order,—Suvarcanā, and Umā, and Vikeśī, and the next Svadhā, Svāhā, the Diśas[3] and Dīkṣā, and Rohiṇī in due order—of the sun and the other stations, O brāhman, together with Rudra and the other names. And there were born to him gradually Cara, and Śukra, Lohitāṅga, Manojava, Skanda, and Sarga, Santāna and Budha successively.